The upshot was Taylor was sent off, Sharp was booked, and Noble scored his seventh penalty of the season. While Millwall lacked the skill to make their one-man advantage count, Southampton are a much more accomplished side. As West Ham retreated into...

Let them come at you and you may live to regret it. So let’s play a genuine 4-3-3 against them and forget what we all know has been a 4-5-1 formation. And the start of Kevin Nolan’s ban is just the time to do it. Play Jack Collison and Mark Noble in...

Southgate playing that role for Terry Venables during his stint as England coach in the mid-1990s. James Tomkins is an outstanding young centre-half and very much the future of our club. Demonstrating this type of adaptability will only add further to...

It was tough, don't get me wrong. It was a tough game. "I thought the boys at the back were brilliant, Tonks [James Tomkins] was brilliant and Coley up front was fantastic. Julien on the wide right was brilliant and Jack Collison and then Matty Taylor...

As big a challenge as it is for me to help this team back into the Premier League, I still have a responsibility to develop the young talent, either already here or from other academies where their skills have not been properly recognised. James...

The outstanding Daryl Murphy doubled the home lead with a header from a Lee Martin corner; but the advantage was trimmed again 90 seconds later when Jack Collison glanced in a simple header from a Noble free-kick. Then, in the last minute of the half,...